Anne (Ayliffe) Hyde (abt. 1611 - 1632)

Born about 1611 in Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Hyde — married 4 Feb 1632 (to Jul 1632) in Battersea, Surrey, England

Died 2 Jul 1632 at about age 21 in Berkshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Anne Ayliffe was the eldest daughter of Sir George Ayliffe and Anne St John.^[1][2]

Anne Aylieff, daughter of George, baptised on 29 Sep 1611 at Corsham, Wiltshire.^[3] A 'SaintJohn' Ayliffe, son of George Ayliffe esq, was baptised at Corsham on 14 Feb 1614/1615.^[3]

Anne was the first wife of Edward Hyde Esq., later the Earl of Clarendon.^[4][5]

Anne was said to have married Edward Hyde on 04 Feb 1631/1632 at Battersea, Surrey^[6], although Complete Peerage^[4] stated it was in 1629.

"She died on 2nd July, 1632, aged 20. She was travelling to Wiltshire with her husband when she became ill at Reading and was taken to relatives at Purley Hall (then known as Hyde Hall). There she died of smallpox in premature confinement and was buried in Purley Church. On the mural she is holding the baby in her arms."^[7]

There is a monument at Purley on Thames, Berkshire:^[8]

Here lyes the body of Ann the wife of Edward Hyde of ye Middle Temple London Esq & daughter of Sir George Ayliffe of Grittenham in ye County of Wilts Knt who died on the 2nd day of [July] in ye yeare 1632 Aged 20.

Sources

1. ↑ Visitation of Wiltshire 1623. Edited by George W Marshall, 1882. Aylyffe Pedigree pp 29-30 Internet Archive.
2. ↑ Wiltshire Visitation Pedigrees 1623. With additional pedigrees and arms collected by Thomas Lyte of Lyte's Cary, Co. Somerset 1628. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol LV and LVI. Edited by GD Squibb. 1954. Aileffe Pedigree pp 1-2.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Corsham Parish Register. Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} The Complete Peerage. Vol III Canonteign to Cutts, 1913, p 265 Internet Archive.
5. ↑ The Ayliffes of Grittenham. By the Rev Canon J E Jackson. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. Vol. XXI, Published 1884, pp 194-211 (see p 201) Internet Archive.
6. ↑ Thomas Marler. By the Rev B G Carne. Friends of Lydiard Tregoz. Report No. 9. 1976 pdf.
7. ↑ Project Purley pdf.
8. ↑ findagrave.com Anne Hyde.